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attendance in the capitol building if his pres- 
ence were desired for the consideration of any 
matter affecting himself or the university. 
He was personally assured that nothing of 
any importance would come up. After the 
adjournment of the board, certain of its mem- 
bers told him that no action had been taken, 
and they made similar statements to report- 
ers, who published their declaration in the 
newspapers. 
All of this leads to the inquiry as to what 
really happened between June 6, 1911, and 
October last, when certain very important 
questions which were up for discussion and 
settlement during that interval must have 
seriously changed the relations of the presi- 
dent and members of the board. Since the 
published statement under consideration does 
not touch upon these subjects, considerations 
of official reserve preclude more than this al- 
lusion to them at this time. 
Tf I may permit myself now to speak in the 
first person let me conclude by saying that no 
one can regret more than myself the neces- 
sity of discussing educational matters in this 
way. Since the board has denied to me the 
usual academic privilege of meeting them 
face to face for frank discussion and has 
chosen to say nothing to me except through 
newspaper reports I am compelled to follow 
their example. Only the consideration that 
the people of the state of Montana need to be 
informed for the protection of higher educa- 
tion, and of their state university in particu- 
lar, leads me to address the same public be- 
‘fore whom the university committee’s report 
has been placed. I hope that the publicity 
given to these issues may result in nothing 
but good for higher education in Montana— 
C. A. Duniway, in The Missoulian. 
SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 
The Life of the Crustacea. By W. T. Cat- 
man, Sc.D. New York, The Macmillan Co. 
1911. Pp. xiv-+ 290, with 32 plates and 85 
figures in the text. 
While the Crustacea have attracted many 
generations of able students, and while they 
“possess a truly ponderous and rapidly growing 
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scientific literature, few attempts have been 
made at a popular exposition. All the more 
welcome is the work under review, in which 
the author, a well-known student and writer 
in this particular field, presents a sketch of 
the entire class, as a whole. His expressed 
purpose is to describe in particular the habits 
and modes of life, as well as “provide for 
readers unfamiliar with the technicalities of 
zoology an account of the more important 
scientific problems suggested by a study of 
the living animals in relation to their en- 
vironment.” 
Excepting alone the insects, the Crustacea 
are perhaps the most diversified and the most 
interesting single class of invertebrates. In 
their multitudinous forms, whether in the 
seas, the fresh waters, or upon land, they offer 
a peculiarly attractive field for the study of 
nearly every problem raised by modern biol- 
ogy, including development, variation, sex, 
heredity, parasitism and other phases of evo- 
lution. The field is both difficult and allur- 
ing. We think that Dr. Calman has suc- 
ceeded admirably in bringing together a host 
of significant facts bearing upon his subject, 
and in presenting them in a logical and inter- 
esting manner. 
A chapter is devoted to the European lobster, 
considered as an exponent of the class, and 
following this are sections on Classification 
and Metamorphosis. Successive chapters 
(V.—X.) treat of Crustacea of the Seashore, 
the Deep Sea, Floating Crustacea of the 
Ocean, Crustacea of Fresh Waters, the Land, 
as Parasites and Messmates, all loaded with 
interesting facts and suggestions. A section 
devoted to “ Crustacea in Relation to Man” 
is less satisfactory. The volume concludes 
with a review of Fossil Crustacea. The illus- 
trations are both ample and good. 
The author speaks from a wide and accurate 
knowledge of his subject, and such errors as 
we have noticed are of a minor character. 
In the superabundance of available materi- 
als, every student of this group is bound to 
find many omissions of matters more or less 
interesting or important. In the chapter on 
the lobster a number of statements need to be 
